Homicide Watch Chicago

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Chicago rapper Young Pappy, who had previously been the intended target in at least two shootings that left bystanders dead, was himself fatally shot early Friday in the Uptown neighborhood. Shaquon Thomas, 19, was in the 4800 block of North Kenmore Avenue when gunfire erupted about 1:35 a.m., authorities … Read more →

Markeyo Carr, 17, was fatally shot in a McDonald’s parking lot last Wednesday in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Reader “saddened” tweeted this about him: Markeyo was a good kid. I has him in some of my programs when he was younger and my husband taught where he went to school. Hanging with the wrong people … Read more →

BY MICHAEL LANSU Homicide Watch Chicago Editor Seven people died last week from violence throughout the city. Six of the victims were shot to death, and a woman was found fatally stabbed in a burning Southwest Side building. The youngest person killed was 17 and the oldest was 51. The most recent killing happened when … Read more →

Markeyo Carr / Family Photo BY MITCH DUDEK, TINA SFONDELES AND REEMA AMIN Chicago Sun-Times A masked gunman fatally shot a 17-year-old boy and wounded three others in a Rogers Park McDonald’s parking lot Wednesday afternoon. A short time after dozens of witnesses reported hearing at least six gunshots, the boy lay dead, a sheet … Read more →